MY LAWYER KENNY KAHN DIES FROM A FALL. HE WAS ONLY 66 YEARS OLD.

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Kenneth Kahn dies at 66; L.A. defense attorney moonlighted as a comedian

Kenneth Kahn, a Los Angeles defense attorney, performs his stand-up comedy routine at the Ha Ha Cafe in North Hollywood. He liked to poke fun at the legal system.
Kahn, a Santa Monica resident, had a side career as a suit-wearing, briefcase-toting stand-up comic. As a lawyer, he may be best known for representing convicted spy Andrew Daulton Lee.

By Dennis McLellan
May 31, 2009
Kenneth Kahn, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who had a side career as a briefcase-toting comic in a double-breasted suit who irreverently poked fun at the legal system, has died. He was 66.

Kahn, a Santa Monica resident, died Wednesday in a hospital in Cuzco, Peru, after suffering massive internal injuries in a fall while climbing the mountain above the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu alone, according to information provided to Bob Mazza, Kahn's public relations consultant.

Kahn had retired from his full-time law practice earlier this year and decided to fulfill a dream of traveling to South America, Mazza said.

As a lawyer, Kahn may be best known for representing convicted spy Andrew Daulton Lee, whom Sean Penn portrayed in the 1985 movie "The Falcon and the Snowman."

He also represented musician Ike Turner for a probation violation and Larry Flynt when the Hustler magazine publisher was charged with desecrating an American flag after showing up in a courthouse wearing a flag as a diaper.

But there was that other side of Kahn, who began moonlighting as a stand-up comic in the mid-'90s and carried a business card that boasted: Kenny Kahn. World's Funniest Attorney.

"Kenny was a unique blend as a lawyer and comedian," attorney Robert Shapiro said in a statement. "He grew up in a horrific childhood and achieved tremendous success in the legal profession. He will be missed by all of us."

Kahn chronicled his childhood in his 2005 book "The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief."

Born in Los Angeles on June 17, 1942, he spent his early years on the midway at Ocean Park Pier, a Santa Monica amusement area. His father was a carnival hustler who rigged pinball machines and games of chance, he wrote in his book, and both of his parents were heroin addicts.

When he was 8, Kahn wrote, his mother was jailed for having sex with a minor. His father left the family, and Kahn and his younger brother, Ricki, were sent to a foster home.

The boys' parents reentered their lives a year later, taking them along for a summer of rigging carnival games at county fairs.

By 1952, Kahn was earning up to $40 a day shortchanging customers at the dime-toss booth.

In 1954, the family moved to Ramona Gardens, an Eastside public housing project, where their apartment quickly became a shooting gallery for junkies.

Two years later, while attending Lincoln High School, the 15-year-old Kahn was stricken with non-paralytic polio. After time as a patient at White Memorial Hospital in Boyle Heights, he returned to school on crutches.

At Lincoln High, social studies teacher Raymond Lopez provided a positive role model.

"I didn't see any people living in the projects with college degrees," Kahn told The Times in 2005. "Lopez set off a spark in me that ignited a thirst for knowledge."

While in high school, Kahn won speech contests and was elected student body president in 1958.

When he graduated, his mother -- now drug-free -- was there to see him accept the American Legion "Boy of the Year" award.

While continuing to spend summers with his father on the carnival circuit, Kahn worked his way through Los Angeles City College and UCLA, where he studied political science and graduated in 1962.

He went on to graduate from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in 1965.
In 1987, Kahn was stabbed in the chest with an ice pick in a Torrance courtroom by the man he had defended for assault on a police officer.

"My life turned around after that incident because it brought the issue of mortality into my consciousness," he told The Times in 2005. "I decided I'd rather go out and create laughter instead of dealing with cranky judges."

After attending a comedy workshop, he began moonlighting as a stand-up comic, working his way up to clubs such as the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory.

Kahn would walk onstage in a double-breasted suit and carrying a briefcase and talk about his life as a lawyer.

Even Kahn's brush with death by ice pick was fodder for his comedy.

"The guy was trying to stab me in the heart," he'd say. "But in a lawyer, it's hard to find."

Performing comedy at night, Kahn said on his website, "gave me a fresh perspective on my profession, and as bizarre as it sounds, incorporating humor into my legal work made me a better attorney."

After the 1985 release of "The Falcon and the Snowman," Kahn filed an $11-million libel lawsuit against Orion Pictures over his portrayal in the movie.

He objected to what he said were "fabricated" scenes depicting him urging his client to inform on drug suppliers in exchange for reduced charges and later helping Lee escape to Mexico.

In 1986, Kahn reached what he described as a "substantial" settlement.

In 2005, Kahn founded Word Power, a series of motivational speaking engagements he made at Southern California high schools to encourage students to improve their communication skills. He also sponsored essay contests in which students wrote about how they overcame obstacles and personal struggles.

Kahn is survived by his sister, Cookie Kahn-Wright; his brother, Ricki Kahn; and two stepchildren, Chris Buford and Kim Buford.

A celebration of Kahn's life will be held in Los Angeles on June 17. Details: (310) 994-4847.

dennis.mclellan@latimes.com

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Shortly before 1900, my ancestors arrived in California hoping to find gold! however much to their dismay, they didn't find any!

 

in later years, none of my family ever discovered gold; however in 2009, i think i have more gold than any of my family members, at least five gold crowns and inlays. not only that i also have GREAT BLACK MUSIC which is pure gold!

THIS IS THE WAY MY MOM MAY JAN MEW LOOKED AS SHE GREETED THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRANTS FOR OVER 40 YEARS!

MY MOM BEING BILINGUAL WAS A PIONEER IN HELPING IMMIGRANTS FIND WORK. SHE WORKED HER ENTIRE LIFE FOR THE CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SOME 40 PLUS YEARS. my mom was able to sell employers on hiring some hard working asian immigrants!

some of the people who she placed as waiters in chinatown later became millionaires, and they remembered my mother. my mom was never one to sit still. once she retired she was selling cars for FORD MOTOR company, and it looks as if FORD MOTOR WILL MAKE IT WITHOUT TAKING GOVERNMENT MONEY. i recently drove a FORD FOCUS to bay area and back; not bad, not like the PORSCHE i once owned or my present TOYOTA CELICA. but with another MUSTANG, i think FORD CAN MAKE IT.

MY MOM ALSO VOLUNTEERED AT MASTICK SENIOR CENTER IN ALAMEDA, OUR HOMETOWN WHERE I WAS RAISED, PLAYED SPORTS AND MUSIC. SHE WOULD STILL BE THERE VOLUNTEERING, BUT RIGHT NOW SHE'S AT KAISER OAKLAND. (she can still drive unlike the guy who plowed through the santa monica farmers market.)she doesn't want any more operations (scroll below); so she'll have to live with the pain of stomach cancer. SHE'S A FIGHTER! she loved to socialize with her colleagues in EASTERN STAR!

she instilled in me and my brothers the strength to do our best in whatever we decided to do. for me right now is trying to play like BIRD! but i'm realistic; i just do the best i can.

and the reason i'm a musician i believe is because my mom sang to me when i was a baby. she's not a professional singer. but my family on both sides like to sing. MY UNCLE HARRY WANTED TO BE A CHINESE PAUL ROBESON, BUT PAUL HIMSELF HAD PROBLEMS, CAN YOU IMAGINE A CHINESE OPERA SINGER?

so i heard music when i was very young. i didn't scat with louie and ella when i was two like ROBERTA GAMBARINI, but i knew BLUE SKIES, THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE, I'M LOOKING OVER A FOUR LEAF CLOVER, APRIL SHOWERS, TEA FOR TWO and others by the time i began kindergarten. THEN WHEN i began saxophone in the 6th grade, i began playing DEEP PURPLE, TENDERLY and other tunes my mom liked. am still trying to play them today.

since i've written about my mom and my family before, i don't want to repeal a lot.(just scroll below) however i learned something about having to continue to START OVER IN LIFE FROM MY MOM AND MY FAMILY.

first when my ancestors landed in california shortly before 1900, can you imagine what they faced? first of all, gold was bullshit. no chinamen were ever going to get any gold claims. so what did they do? my grandmother and great great grandmother happen to be great seamstresses. they were soon sewing jeans for the miners, washing clothes, growing veggies, doing whatever to survive. what happenened when GOLD MINING DRIED UP IN PLACERVILLE? well they migrated to san francisco chinatown; they couldn't live anywhere else. better to stay close to people who look like you. THEN CAME THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE. (SCROLL BELOW TO READ MY GRANDPARENTS DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HAPPENED.) my pregnant grandmother ran from van ness avenue to the dock to escape the flames; she and my grandfather made it to alameda where they began growing veggies and started ALL OVER AGAIN. then they became pioneers in OAKLAND CHINATOWN (NEAR YOSHI'S); my mom was born, then me. (for more scroll below).

i recorded LAMENT today for my mom. i won't be going to the bay area unless things get worse, but MY MOM'S A FIGHTER, I'M GOING TO CALL HER RIGHT NOW!

my HEDGE FUND PARTNER KIM LOAN HUYNH, THE VIETNAMESE WARREN BUFFET

 

MS HUYNH SPECIALIZES IN SOLAR ENERGY AND SHIPPING!

A STORY OF SURVIVAL-ROY LIVINGSTON

 

I've known Roy for at least six years. I written about him before. (see below) When i first met him he introduced himself as a guitarist, bassist and someone who had toured the world playing with people like JONI MITCHELL, THE ASSOCIATION and others. He was also a graduate of Hollywood High School in the era of STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT JOHN RITTER. His mother played piano, and she was like a promoter for some of the stars. Roy was adopted and didn't know his real Canadian parents. They may have been killed in a car crash. Anyway Roy's parents discovered early that he had musical talent and later discovered that he has perfect pitch. In fact often he would tell me i was out of tune. Roy did all the music things while in school, was a surfer; in fact he told me a lot of the history of Hollywood and Santa Monica. Then he went to U.C.L.A and got straight A'S majoring in music. He said he didn't have to study much, and he played in bands and was making money while in music while in high school and college. Once he graduated, he was touring the world playing music. Then he served as a medivac in the Vietnam War; he saw lots of blood and helped a lot of soldiers.

I think Roy began drinking when he was young and continued throughout his adult life. And after two failed marriages, he ended up on the street. His belongings supposedly were in storage. However when i first met him I didn't know he slept on the street. He seemed like a good guy; had a lot of musical knowledge, and I would let him sing when I had to go to the bathroom or something. He's helped me on and off all this time except when he was missing for months at a time; he would disappear, and often i didn't know where he was except once I visited him in a nursing home. He had been hit by a car and was recuperating in a nursing home for nearly a year. Also in the past six years, I took him on many gigs, most recently to BOB UDKOFF'S FUNERAL and before that to A GREAT DAY IN L.A. He helps me carry my stuff, and he gets to eat at these gigs!

Roy's health has deterioraged a lot since I've known him. When I first met him he used to read a lot. He was able to push my bag and carry all my stuff with no problem and also walk as fast as I could. However since his last hospitalization, he can only walk slowly and can't carry much; so now I either do the heavy work myself or hire another homeless person. And Roy now takes some kind of heart medicine.

Despite all this, Roy has charm, and a very smart young lady 30 years younger was attracted to him, and actually married him in the last year. She and her mother crashed her mother's Mercedes, and the mother died from the accident. Roy's wife was O.K and now works for Merrill Lynch. They had some marital problems, and Roy was on the street again.

However today Roy buzzes my apartment and brings me $50 cash, some money I loaned him; He may have owed me more, but I lost track over the years.

SOMEHOW ROY QUALIFED FOR SSI. (SOME FORM OF SOCIAL SECURITY.) HE NOW RECEIVES $900 A MONTH AND IS TRYING TO GET SECTION 8 HOUSING. HE ALWAYS HAD FOOD STAMPS. AND NOW HIS WIFE IS GOING TO TAKE HIM BACK, AND THEY'RE PLANNING TO BUY A HOME ON CATALINA ISLAND. HER MOTHER WAS A WIDOW AND USED TO LIVE IN BRENTWOOD. SO SHE INHERITED SOMETHING.

MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN, BUT I THINK GENERALLY ONLY IN THIS COUNTRY. SOMEONE LIKE ROY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD LONG AGO IN MOST COUNTRIES!

I EVEN INVITED HIM TO VITELLO'S THIS THURSDAY FOR THE BILL CUNLIFFE CD RELEASE BECAUSE ROY LOVES THE MUSIC.

FIRESIDE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL RESIDENTS 2-9-09 SANTA MONICA, CA

 
The young man in the front left RONNIE PARKS who sang with CHARLIE SPIVAK AND GUY LOMBARDO. MOODY'S COUSIN IS IN THE MIDDLE AND LET OUT A SCREAM ON THE SECOND CHORUS OF "A BALLAD FOR BARACK". he also added an "AMEN", when i finished; you can hear it on the recording. www.jamwave.com/wenmew7. LORRAINE, the front right is very familiar with the GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK. i expect to play the entire week at the nursing home as this is the worst weather week in Santa Monica.

WEN RECORDS CD AT FIRESIDE NURSING HOME, SANTA MONICA 1-29-09

At a time when the global economy is collapsing around us, the last refuge might be the nursing home. so i played for the residents, many of whom have been around and in show business their entire lives. they know the GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK , the lyrics the melodies; so it's a delight to perform there. one resident JAMES MOODY'S cousin requested UNFORGETTABLE, CHARLIE PARKER, AND ARTHUR PRYSOCK. i did my best to oblige. among the tunes recorded, SOPHISTICATED LADY, PRELUDE TO A KISS, PERDIDO, I'M GETTING SENTIMENTAL OVER YOU, BYE BYE BLACKBIRD, I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY, THE MORE I SEE YOU, SPEAK LOW, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY, I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE, MR. MOODY LOVES BEBOP, and MOODY'S MOOD FOR LOVE.

it was a great afternoon inside even though it was in the 70s outside.

i will be performing more at the FIRESIDE NURSING HOME. THE ACOUSTICS ARE GREAT, and audience is appreciative!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

"OLD FAITHFUL" IN SANTA MONICA!

SANTA MONICA IS KNOWN AS A FORWARD LOOKING CITY. THEY CREATED THEIR OWN ICE SKATING RINK 4 BLOCKS FROM THE BEACH, AND NOW THEY'VE RECREATED "OLD FAITHFUL" JUST 3 BLOCKS FROM THE BEACH ON SANTA MONICA AVE. BETWEEN 3RD AND FOUTH STREETS.

WHAT A CITY! WWW.SANTAMONICATODAY.COM

AND IT'S IN THE 60S. SUNDAY WAS 68 DEGREES!

MOM'S HOME! SHE BEAT CANCER! UNBELIEVABLE. SHE'S BACK IN HER HOME, HARBOR BAY, ALAMEDA, GATED SITUATION!

 

it took about 3 weeks at KAISER. a surgical team led by Dr.
Patel from Yale removed cancerous tissue from my mom's lung. other doctors were two lovely lady
resident surgeons , a chineselady from MT HOLYOKE, WASHINGTON ST.LOUIS AND AN ORANGE COUNTY PERSIAN DOCTOR FROM UNIV. OF CA. SAN DIEGO.

WHAT A TERRIFIC SURGICAL TEAM!

NOW MY MOM'S BACK LISTENING TO LAWRENCE WELK AND NOT ME. BUT THAT'S O.K. SHE ALWAYS SAYS I PLAY TOO MANY NOTES, AND SHE'S RIGHT.

it was my mom who sang to me when i was young, and by the time i entered kindergarten, i already knew BLUE SKIES, THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE, TEA FOR TWO, APRIL SHOWERS,TENDERLY, DEEP PURPLE, et al. pretty heavy music for a young kid, but i'm still playing the same tunes today. THAT IS THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK. too bad kids today aren't exposed to this great music. and then when i was older and began playing saxophone in the 6th grade, my mom's brothers who were in WWII had collected a whole bunch of 78s, BENNY GOODMAN, HARRY JAMES, THE DORSEYS, ARTIE SHAW and the like. their solos would blow my mind. i ask himself at that time, how in the hell can these guys play like that. well, finally years i later, i think i can do it too.

SO YOU SEE, YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE TO BE EXPOSED TO GREAT MUSIC, OTHERWISE, THEIR MINDS AND EARS ARE NOT LIKELY TO DEVELOP.

I FEEL BLESSED BECAUSE OF MY MOM, AND EVEN THOUGH SHE SAYS "WHY DON'T YOU GET A JOB INSTEAD OF BLOWING THAT HORN ALL DAY", SHE STILL LOVES ME, AND I LOVE HER!

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO SENT GOOD WISHES AND PRAYERS!

LOVE,

WEN

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Attila the Hun
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Attila the Hun
(King of the Huns), as seen in Chronicon Pictum
Reign 434–453
Born 406
Birthplace Pannonia
Died 453
Place of death Jazberin
Predecessor Bleda & Rugila
Successor Ellac
Father Mundzuk

Attila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, was leader of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea (see map below). During his rule he was one of the most fearsome of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires' enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, he marched through Gaul (modern France) as far as Orleans before being defeated at the Battle of Chalons. He refrained from attacking either Constantinople or Rome. His propaganda, that the Sword of Attila had come to his hand by miraculous means, was reported by the Roman Priscus.

In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. In contrast, some histories and Chronicles lionize him as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three Norse sagas.
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* 1 Background
* 2 Shared kingship
* 3 Sole ruler
* 4 Attila in the west
* 5 Invasion of Italy and death
* 6 Appearance, character, and name
* 7 Literary and Cultural Representations
o 7.1 Literature: Historical/Biographical
o 7.2 Literature: Historical fiction based on Attila the Hun
o 7.3 Comedic Examples
+ 7.3.1 Movies/TV
+ 7.3.2 Cartoons/Books
o 7.4 Musical references
o 7.5 TV/Movies
o 7.6 Other Cultural References
* 8 References
o 8.1 Primary sources
o 8.2 Notes

[edit] Background

Main article: Huns

The origin of the Huns has been the subject of debate for centuries; however it can be said with general agreement that they may have been a confederation of Central Asian and European tribes, many of them nomadic horsemen. Many experts think they may have been Turkic people, descended from the Xiongnu tribes that menaced China as early as the 5th century BC. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, built part of the Great Wall to keep the Xiongnu out.

Their united power appeared or began to form in Europe in the 400s. They achieved military superiority over their neighbours by their readiness for battle, unusual mobility, and weapons, including the composite bow.


[edit] Shared kingship
The Hunnic Empire stretched from the steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea - albeit not simultaneously, as the Huns first appeared in Southern Russia and later moved to Central Europe
The Hunnic Empire stretched from the steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea - albeit not simultaneously, as the Huns first appeared in Southern Russia and later moved to Central Europe

The death of Rugila (also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left his nephews Attila Dragomer and Bleda (also known as Buda), the sons of his brother Mundzuk, in control over all the united Hun tribes. At the time of their accession, the Huns were bargaining with Byzantine emperor Theodosius II's envoys over the return of several renegades (possibly Hunnic nobles not in agreement with the brothers' leadership) who had taken refuge within the Byzantine Empire. The following year Attila and Bleda met with the imperial legation at Margus (present-day Požarevac) and, all seated on horseback in the Hunnic manner, negotiated a successful treaty: the Romans agreed not only to return the fugitives, but also to double their previous tribute of 350 Roman pounds (ca. 114.5 kg) of gold, open their markets to Hunnish traders, and pay a ransom of eight solidi for each Roman taken prisoner by the Huns. The Huns, satisfied with the treaty, decamped from the empire and returned to their home in the Hungarian Great Plain, perhaps to consolidate and strengthen their empire. Theodosius used this opportunity to strengthen the walls of Constantinople, building the city's first sea wall, and to build up his border defences along the Danube.

The Huns remained out of Roman sight for the next few years as a Hunnic force invaded the Persian Empire. A defeat in Armenia by the Sassanid Persians caused them to abandon this attempt and return their attentions to Europe. In 440 they reappeared in force on the borders of the Roman Empire, attacking the merchants at the market on the north bank of the Danube that had been established by the treaty. Crossing the Danube they laid waste to Illyrian cities and forts on the river, among them, according to Priscus, Viminacium, which was a city of the Moesians in Illyria. Their advance began at Margus, for when the Romans discussed handing over the offending bishop, he slipped away secretly to the Huns and betrayed the city to them.

As Theodosius had conquered the river's defences, the Vandals, under the leadership of Geiseric, captured the Western Roman province of Africa with its capital of Carthage in 440 and the Sassanid Shah Yazdegerd II invaded Armenia in 441. Stripping the Balkan defenses of forces requested by the West Romans, in order to launch an attack on the Vandals in Africa (which was the richest province of the Western empire and a main source of the food supply of Rome) left Attila and Bleda a clear path through Illyria into the Balkans, which they invaded in 441. The Hunnish army, having sacked Margus and Viminacium, took Singidunum (modern Belgrade) and Sirmium before halting. A lull followed in 442 and during this time Theodosius recalled his troops from Sicily and ordered a large new issue of coins to finance operations against the Huns. Having made these preparations, he thought it safe to refuse the Hunnish kings' demands.

Attila responded with a campaign in 443. Striking along the Danube, the Huns overran the military centres of Ratiara and successfully besieged Naissus (modern Niš) with battering rams and rolling towers—military sophistication that was new to the Hun repertoire—then pushing along the Nisava they took Serdica (Sofia), Philippopolis (Plovdiv), and Arcadiopolis. They encountered and destroyed the Roman army outside Constantinople and were stopped by the double walls of the Eastern capital. A second army was defeated near Callipolis (modern Gallipoli) and Theodosius, now without any armed forces to respond, admitting defeat, sent the court official Anatolius to negotiate peace terms, which were harsher than the previous treaty: the Emperor agreed to hand over 6,000 Roman pounds (ca. 1,963 kg) of gold as punishment for having disobeyed the terms of the treaty during the invasion; the yearly tribute was tripled, rising to 2,100 Roman pounds (ca. 687 kg) in gold; and the ransom for each Roman prisoner rose to 12 solidi.

Their demands met for a time, the Hun kings withdrew into the interior of their empire. According to Jordanes (following Priscus), sometime during the peace following the Huns' withdrawal from Byzantium (probably around 445), Bleda died (killed by his brother, according to the classical sources), and Attila took the throne for himself.[1]

[edit] Sole ruler
Mór Than's painting The Feast of Attila, based on a fragment of Priscus (depicted at right, dressed in white and holding his history): "When evening began to draw in, torches were lighted, and two barbarians came forward in front of Attila and sang songs which they had composed, hymning his victories and his great deeds in war. And the banqueters gazed at them, and some were rejoiced at the songs, others became excited at heart when they remembered the wars, but others broke into tears—those whose bodies were weakened by time and whose spirit was compelled to be at rest.
Mór Than's painting The Feast of Attila, based on a fragment of Priscus (depicted at right, dressed in white and holding his history):
"When evening began to draw in, torches were lighted, and two barbarians came forward in front of Attila and sang songs which they had composed, hymning his victories and his great deeds in war. And the banqueters gazed at them, and some were rejoiced at the songs, others became excited at heart when they remembered the wars, but others broke into tears—those whose bodies were weakened by time and whose spirit was compelled to be at rest.

In 447 Attila again rode south into the empire through Moesia. The Roman army under the Gothic magister militum Arnegisclus met him in the Battle of the Utus and was defeated, though not without inflicting heavy losses. The Huns were left unopposed and rampaged through the Balkans as far as Thermopylae. Constantinople itself was saved by the intervention of the prefect Flavius Constantinus who organized the reconstruction of the walls that had been previously damaged by earthquakes, and, in some places, to construct a new line of fortification in front of the old. An account of this invasion survives:

The barbarian nation of the Huns, which was in Thrace, became so great that more than a hundred cities were captured and Constantinople almost came into danger and most men fled from it. … And there were so many murders and blood-lettings that the dead could not be numbered. Ay, for they took captive the churches and monasteries and slew the monks and maidens in great numbers.
—Callinicus, in his Life of Saint Hypatius

[edit] Attila in the west

In 450 Attila had proclaimed his intent to attack the powerful Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse, making an alliance with Emperor Valentinian III in order to do so. He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its de facto ruler Flavius Aëtius. Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Attila provided against the Goths and Bagaudae had helped earn him the largely honorary title of magister militum in the west. The gifts and diplomatic efforts of Geiseric, who opposed and feared the Visigoths, may also have influenced Attila's plans.

However Valentinian's sister was Honoria, who, in order to escape her forced betrothal to a Roman senator, had sent the Hunnish king a plea for help – and her engagement ring – in the spring of 450. Though Honoria may not have intended a proposal of marriage, Attila chose to interpret her message as such. He accepted, asking for half of the western Empire as dowry. When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother Galla Placidia convinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila strenuously denying the legitimacy of the supposed marriage proposal. Attila, not convinced, sent an emissary to Ravenna to proclaim that Honoria was innocent, that the proposal had been legitimate, and that he would come to claim what was rightfully his.
The general path of the Hun forces in the invasion of Gaul, leading up to the Battle of Chalons.
The general path of the Hun forces in the invasion of Gaul, leading up to the Battle of Chalons.

Attila also interfered in a succession struggle after the death of a Frankish ruler. Attila supported the elder son, while Aëtius supported the younger.[2]

Attila gathered his vassals—Gepids, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians, Heruls, Thuringians, Alans, Burgundians, among others and began his march west. In 451 he arrived in Belgica with an army exaggerated by Jordanes to half a million strong. J.B. Bury believes that Attila's intent, by the time he marched west, was to extend his kingdom – already the strongest on the continent – across Gaul to the Atlantic Ocean.[3]

On April 7, he captured Metz. Other cities attacked can be determined by the hagiographic vitae written to commemorate their bishops: Nicasius was slaughtered before the altar of his church in Rheims; Servatus is alleged to have saved Tongeren with his prayers, as Saint Genevieve is to have saved Paris.[4] Lupus, bishop of Troyes, is also credited with saving his city by meeting Attila in person.[5]

Aëtius moved to oppose Attila, gathering troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by Avitus, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king Theodoric I (Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached Orleans ahead of Attila,[6] thus checking and turning back the Hunnish advance. Aëtius gave chase and caught the Huns at a place usually assumed to be near Catalaunum (modern Châlons-en-Champagne). The two armies clashed in the Battle of Chalons, whose outcome is commonly considered to be a Pyrrhic victory for the Visigothic-Roman alliance. Theodoric was killed in the fighting and Aëtius failed to press his advantage, according to Edward Gibbon and Edward Creasy because he feared the consequences of an overwhelming Visogothic triumph as much as he did a defeat. From Aëtius' point of view, the best outcome was what occurred: Theodoric died, Attila was in retreat and disarray, and the Romans had the benefit of appearing victorious.

[edit] Invasion of Italy and death
Raphael's The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila shows Leo I, with Saint Peter and Saint Paul above him, going to meet Attila
Raphael's The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila shows Leo I, with Saint Peter and Saint Paul above him, going to meet Attila

Attila returned in 452 to claim his marriage to Honoria anew, invading and ravaging Italy along the way. The city of Venice was founded as a result of these attacks when the residents fled to small islands in the Venetian Lagoon. His army sacked numerous cities and razed Aquileia completely, leaving no trace of it behind. Legend has it he built a castle on top of a hill north of Aquileia to watch the city burn, thus founding the town of Udine, where the castle can still be found. Aëtius, who lacked the strength to offer battle, managed to harass and slow Attila's advance with only a shadow force. Attila finally halted at the River Po. By this point disease may have broken out in Attila's camp, thus helping to stop his invasion.

At the wish of Emperor Valentinian III, Pope Leo I, accompanied by the Consul Avienus and the Prefect Trigetius, met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.[7] Prosper of Aquitaine gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting. The later anonymous account,[8] a pious "fable which has been represented by the pencil of Raphael and the chisel of Algardi" (as Gibbon called it) says that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter and Saint Paul, convinced him to turn away from the city, promising Attila that if he left in peace, one of his successors would receive a holy crown.[9] Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of Alaric—who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause.
An illustration of the meeting from the Chronicon Pictum, ca. 1360.
An illustration of the meeting from the Chronicon Pictum, ca. 1360.

After Attila left Italy and returned to his palace across the Danube, he planned to strike at Constantinople again and reclaim the tribute which Marcian had cut off. (Marcian was the successor of Theodosius and had ceased paying tribute in late 450 while Attila was occupied in the west; multiple invasions by the Huns and others had left the Balkans with little to plunder.) However Attila died in the early months of 453. The conventional account, from Priscus, says that at a feast celebrating his latest marriage to the beautiful and young Ildico (if uncorrupted, the name suggests a Gothic origin)[10] he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor. An alternative theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking or a condition called esophageal varices, where a hemorrhoid in the lower part of the esophagus ruptures leaving the person to choke on his/her own blood.

Another account of his death, first recorded 80 years after the events by the Roman chronicler Count Marcellinus, reports that "Attila, King of the Huns and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by the hand and blade of his wife."[11] The Volsunga saga and the Poetic Edda also claim that King Atli (Attila) died at the hands of his wife, Gudrun.[12] Most scholars reject these accounts as no more than hear-say, preferring instead the account given by Attila's contemporary Priscus. Priscus' version, however, has recently come under renewed scrutiny by Michael A. Babcock.[13] Based on detailed philological analysis, Babcock concludes that the account of natural death, given by Priscus, was an ecclesiastical "cover story" and that Emperor Marcian (who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 450-457) was the political force behind Attila's death.

Jordanes says, "the greatest of all warriors should be mourned with no feminine lamentations and with no tears, but with the blood of men." His horsemen galloped in circles around the silken tent where Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to Cassiodorus and Jordanes, "Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for vengeance?" then celebrated a strava (lamentation) over his burial place with great feasting. Legend says that he was laid to rest in a triple coffin made of gold, silver, and iron, along with some of the spoils of his conquests. His men diverted a section of the river Tisza, buried the coffin under the riverbed, and then were killed to keep the exact location a secret.

His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings would belong to which brother. As a consequence they were divided, defeated and scattered the following year in the Battle of Nedao by the Ostrogoths and the Gepids under Ardaric. According to Jordanes, Ardaric, who was once Attila's most prized chieftain, turned against the feuding brothers when he felt that they were treating the nations they ruled as slaves.

Attila's many children and relatives are known by name and some even by deeds, but soon valid genealogical sources all but dry up and there seems to be no verifiable way to trace Attila's descendants. This hasn't stopped many genealogists from attempting to reconstruct a valid line of descent for various medieval rulers. One of the most credible claims has been that of the tsars of Bulgaria (see Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed attempt tries to relate Attila to Charlemagne (see Attila the Hun to Charlemagne).

[edit] Appearance, character, and name

There is no surviving first-person account of Attila's appearance. There is, however, a possible second-hand source, provided by Jordanes, who claimed Priscus described Attila as:

short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

Attila from an illustration to the Poetic Edda.
Attila from an illustration to the Poetic Edda.

Attila is known in Western history and tradition as the grim flagellum dei (Latin: "Scourge of God"), and his name has become a byword for cruelty and barbarism. Some of this may have arisen from confusion between him and later steppe warlords such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. All are considered to be cruel, clever, and blood-thirsty lovers of battle and pillage. The reality of his character is probably more complex. The Huns of Attila's era had been mingling with Roman civilisation for some time, largely through the Germanic foederati of the border, so that by the time of Theodosius's embassy in 448 Priscus could identify two primary languages among the Huns, Gothic and Hunnic, with some people knowing Latin and Greek. Priscus also recounts his meeting with an eastern Roman captive who had so fully assimilated into the Huns' way of life that he had no desire to return to his former country, and the Byzantine historian's description of Attila's humility and simplicity is unambiguous in its admiration.

The origin of Attila's name is not known with confidence, because very little is known about Hunnic names. In the Hunnic language Danube-Bulgarian, the etymology "oceanic (universal) [ruler]" has been proposed.[14] Also the word possibly originates from Turkic Atyl/Atal/Atil/Itil meaning water, river (also, ancient name of Volga river) with adjective suffix -ly. (Compare also Turkic medieval notable title atalyk - "senior as father").[15][16][17] This is correlating to the fact that the Polish Chronicle is using Attila's name as Aquila bearing the Latin aqua inside. Others believe that the name may have connection to Hungarian Ítélet meaning judgement or Old-Turkic via the loandword in Gothic (or Gepid) atta ("father") and the diminutive suffix -ila.[18] Attila was not a rare name in Central Europe prior to Attila making his mark on history; the historical record shows numerous persons with the name preceding him. 'Attila' has many variants: Atli and Atle in Norse, Ætla, Attle and Atlee in English, Attila/Atilla/Etele in Hungarian (all the three name variants are used in Hungary; Attila is the most popular variant), Etzel in modern German or Attila, Atila or Atilla in modern Turkish.

[edit] Literary and Cultural Representations

Attila has been portrayed in various ways, sometimes as a noble ruler, sometimes as a cruel barbarian.

[edit] Literature: Historical/Biographical

* Hungarian poet János Arany wrote an epic poem about Attila and his brother Bleda called Buda halála (The Death of King Buda) which is part of a larger work titled A Csaba-trilógia (The Csaba Trilogy).
* Babcock, Michael A. (2005) The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun (Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN 0-425-20272-0)
* Blockley, R.C. (1983) The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II (ISBN 0-905205-15-4). This is a collection of fragments from Priscus, Olympiodorus, and others, with original text and translation.
* Burgess, Anthony. This British writer wrote a biographical novella about Attila entitled Hun which was published in the story collection The Devil's Mode (1989).
* Hungarian Géza Gárdonyi's novel A láthatatlan ember (1901) (published in English as Slave of the Huns and largely based on Priscus) offered a sympathetic portrait of Attila as a wise and beloved leader. This reflects the positive way in which Attila, his last wife Ildikó and his brother Bleda are viewed in Hungary and Turkey.
* Gordon, C. D. (1960) The Age of Attila: Fifth-century Byzantium and the Barbarians (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0472061119). This is a translated collection, with commentary and annotation, of ancient writings on the subject, including Priscus.
* Heather, Peter (2005) The Fall of the Roman Empire—A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195159543)
* The Death of Attila by Cecelia Holland (1973) takes place in 453, with the tensions and uncertainty of Attila's last year being the background for an unlikely friendship between Tacs, a young, ne'er-do-well Hunnish warrior, and Dietric, son of a Germanic subject king.
* Howarth, Patrick (1994) Attila, King of the Huns: The Man and the Myth (ISBN 0786709308).
* Maenchen-Helfen, J. Otto (1973) The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (Berkeley, University of California Press, ISBN 0520015967)
* Man, John (2005) Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome (Bantam Press, ISBN 0-593-05291-9)
* Thompson, E. A. (1948) A History of Attila and the Huns (London, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0837176409). This is the authoritative English work on the subject. It was reprinted in 1999 as The Huns in the Peoples of Europe series (ISBN 0-631-21443-7). Thompson did not enter controversies over Hunnic origins and considers his victories to have been achieved only when there was no concerted opposition.

[edit] Literature: Historical fiction based on Attila the Hun

* Costain, Thomas. (1959) The Darkness and Dawn is written from the point of view of Nicolan, carried into slavery from his home on the Danube and after many adventures becoming Attila's aide - but also becoming romantically involved with the beautiful Ildico, which is quite dangerous.
* Dietrich, William. (2005) The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Roman Empire (HarperTorch, ISBN 978-0060735081) See [2]

Set in the final days of the Roman Empire, Dietrich's fifth novel follows the attempt of Attila the Hun to conquer the West.

* Napier, William. Attila is a powerful and charismatic figure in Bill Napier's ongoing trilogy, Attila
o Attila (Orion Books Ltd, 2005) ISBN 0-7528-7787-9) See [3]).
o The Gathering of the Storm (Orion Books Ltd, 2007) ISBN 978-0-75287-433-3)
o Date of publishing of the third book in the trilogy unknown.
* Seredy, Kate wrote the novel The White Stag, the Newbery Medal winning book of 1938, which is a retelling of the legend of the rise of Attila the Hun written in lyric prose.
* In the German epic Nibelungenlied Etzel is portrayed as a noble and generous ally, while Atli in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda (and Ætla in Widsith) is a cruel miser.

[edit] Comedic Examples

Though not typically associated with light-heartedness, Attila (or his stereotype) has been invoked in a comedic way:

[edit] Movies/TV

* Attila is the protagonist of the Italian comedy movie, Attila, flagello di Dio, directed by Castellano and Pipolo, and staring Diego Abatantuono. This 1982 film has become a cult classic, and is a prime example of Italian cinema trash of the 1980s. It is still very well known among Italy's younger generations.
* In Woody Allen's satirical film Love and Death, Diane Keaton's character justifies a plan to assassinate Napoleon based on this alleged quote by Attila: "Violence is justified in the service of mankind".
* In "Scrooged" starring Bill Murray, The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen) makes reference to having visited Attila the Hun, who cried like "Niagara Falls" upon seeing his younger mother in vision.
* Episode 20 of Monty Python's Flying Circus is titled "The Attila the Hun Show", featuring Attila and his family (and also Uncle Tom who apparently is Attila's butler), as sitcom characters, as well as parody characters Attila the Nun and Attila the Bun.
* In the movie The Return of the Pink Panther, the Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) quotes, "Compared to [Inspector] Clouseau (Peter Sellers), Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer."
* In an episode of the early 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, the character Rob Petrie belts out a ditty called "I'm In Love With Attila the Hun" which he co-wrote with an old army buddy. In a 1967 episode of That Girl titled "Author, Author", Ann's fiance, the character of Donald Hollinger, sings and claims credit to the exact same tune. The song was also used in an episode of Good Morning World.
* Attila shared his name in a TMNT episode Invasion Of The Punk Frogs with one of the frogs Shredder found and trained. He carries a flail.
* In an episode of The Monkees TV show, The Devil & Peter Tork, Attila appears in the courtroom scene as an Asian warrior, probably confused with Genghis Khan, & speaks a language not unlike Chinese or Mongolian.
* He appeared as a hologram on the "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" episode of Futurama. He demonstrates physics knowledge later on the episode, realising uncontrolled decompression would happen inside the characters' space ship if ripped.

[edit] Cartoons/Books

* The comic strip character Broom-Hilda is supposedly Attila's ex-wife.
* Another comic strip, The Wizard of Id, features occasional invasions by The Huns.
* In Will Cuppy's satirical European history book, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, he makes fun of the question of how to pronounce Attila's name: "Attila does not rhyme with vanilla as it used to in my day. It is believed that, if children can be taught to accent Attila on the first syllable, things may take a turn for the better."

[edit] Musical references

* The Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir made a song praising Attila called "Hunnerkongens Sorgsvarte Ferd Over Steppene"which translates to "The King of the Huns' Sorrowful Black Journey over the Plains".
* Heavy metal band Iced Earth put a song named "Attila" on their album The Glorious Burden. The song tells of Attila's reign as ruler.
* The British heavy metal band Saxon wrote a song called "Attila the Hun" which was included on their 2006 album, "The Inner Sanctum."
* Hungarian musician Levente Szörényi (from the band Illés), wrote a rock opera titled Attila, Isten kardja (Attila, Sword of God).
* Opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The libretto by Temistocle Solera, is based on the play Attila, König der Hunnen ("Attila, King of the Huns") by Zacharias Werner. Premiered at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on March 17, 1846.
* Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada wrote a song about his greatness of Attila the Hun - the forefather of the Hungarians. This track called "Égnek ostora" (Scourge of the Sky) and included on their 2008 album, "Szelek" (Winds).

[edit] TV/Movies

* Anthony Quinn played the role of Attila in a film co-starring Sophia Loren as Honoria.
* Attila was portrayed by Jack Palance in Douglas Sirk's Sign of the Pagan (1954).
* In Shawn Levy's children's film Night at the Museum, a wax mannequin of Attila at the American Museum of Natural History, along with everything else in the museum, is brought to life on a nightly basis via an ancient Egyptian curse and acts as an enemy though eventually a friend to the protagonist; a museum night-watchman. He is incorrectly depicted in the film as being East Asian. His destructiveness as an adult is attributed to a heartbreaking experience he had as a child.
* A TV miniseries, Attila, which was produced in 2000 and was broadcast in 2001, stars Gerard Butler as Attila and Powers Boothe as Flavius Aëtius.

[edit] Other Cultural References

* In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Attila appears in the seventh circle of Hell, immersed in a river of boiling blood, and is called "the scourge of Earth". Dante also charges him with the destruction of Florence, but this is a blunder by the author, who has confused him with the Ostrogothic warlord Totila.
* In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, the titular character expresses his pride at his Székely heritage and notes his believed descent from Attila. Historically, however, Vlad Dracula was an ethnic Vlach with no clear link to Attila.
* The PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion has a single player campaign involving Attila's conquests.
* In the PC game Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion the huns are a playable faction.
* A popular aphorism is to speak of extreme right-wing politicians or ultra-conservative businessmen as being To the right of Attila the Hun. [19]
* Margaret Thatcher was widely nicknamed 'Attila the Hen' when she was British Prime Minister

[edit] References

[edit] Primary sources

* Priscus: Byzantine History, available in the original Greek in Ludwig Dindorf : Historici Graeci Minores (Leipzig, Teubner, 1870) and available online as a translation by J.B. Bury: Priscus at the court of Attila
* Jordanes: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Priscus of Panium: fragments from the Embassy to Attila
2. ^ The location and identity of these kings is not known and subject to conjecture.
3. ^ J.B. Bury, The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians, lecture IX (e-text)
4. ^ The vitae are summarized in Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders (New York: Russell & Russell, 1967 reprint of the original 1880–89 edition), volume II pp. 128ff.
5. ^ St. Lupus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
6. ^ Later accounts of the battle site the Huns either already within the city or in the midst of storming it when the Roman-Visigoth army arrived; Jordanes mentions no such thing. See Bury, ibid.
7. ^ "Pope St. Leo I (the Great)" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
8. ^ Medieval Sourcebook, Leo I and Attila, [1]
9. ^ Chronicon Pictum, this is the first occasion when an artist presented an angel graphically
10. ^ Thompson, The Huns, p. 164.
11. ^ Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (e-text), quoted in Hector Munro Chadwick: The Heroic Age (London, Cambridge University Press, 1926), p. 39 n. 1.
12. ^ Volsunga Saga, Chapter 39; Poetic Edda, Atlamol En Grönlenzku, The Greenland Ballad of Atli
13. ^ Babcock, Michael A. The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun, Berkley Books, 2005 ISBN 0-425-20272-0
14. ^ Omeljan Pritsak (1982), "Hunnic names of the Attila clan", Harvard Ukrainian Studies VI: p. 444,
15. ^ "Europe: The Origins of the Huns", by Kessler Associate, based on conversations with Kemal Cemal, Turkey, 2002
16. ^ The World of the Huns. Chapter IX. Language - O. Maenchen-Helfen
17. ^ Gene Expression
18. ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto (1973). "Chapter 9.4", The World of the Huns. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520015968.
19. ^ Attila the Hun:

Preceded by
Rugila Hunnic rulers
jointly with Bleda
434 – 445 Succeeded by
Ellac


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NAME Attila the Hun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scourge of God
SHORT DESCRIPTION Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death
DATE OF BIRTH 406
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH 453
PLACE OF DEATH

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Robert Kennedy and His Times
By Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES is "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings" (Los Angeles Times).
Contents
Prologue 19fiH
1
Baltimore, boat, cars
The Family
3
Joseph Kennedy, Franklin D, Rose Kennedy
The Father
21
Rose Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, Why England Slept
The War
41
Joe Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, PT boat
The Third Son
63
Haganah, Kenneth O'Donnell, Marshall Plan
The Brothers I
90
Paul Dever, James Landis, Franklin D
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The First Investigating Committee Joe McCarthy
99
Roy Cohn, David Schine, Rob Hall
Interlude William O Douglas and Adlai Stevenson
121
Baku, William Loeb, Ethel Kennedy
The Second Investigating Committee Jimmy Hoffa
137
Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, McClellan
The Second Investigating Committee Walter Reuther
170
Walter Reuther, Jack Conway, Bobby Kennedy
1o 196o
222
The Pursuit of Justice J Edgar Hoover
245
Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn, Annie Lee Moss
The Pursuit ofJustice The Mob
261
organized crime, wiretaps, Teamsters
The Pursuit ofJustice Civil Rights
286
John Doar, Harris Wofford, civil rights
The Pursuit of Justice Ross Barnett and George Wallace
317
Stanley Levison, Bull Connor, Katzenbach
The Politics of Justire
368
Igor Cassini, Bobby Baker, Morrissey
Justire and Poverty
392
U.S. Steel, malapportionment, antitrust
The Kennedys and the Cold War
417
Cold War, Khrushchev, George Ball
2o The CIA and Counterinsurgency
443
Allen Dulles, Bay of Pigs, Howard Hunt
The Cuban Connection I
468
Lansdale, Bay of Pigs, Allen Dulles
Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis
499
Khrushchev, Llewellyn Thompson, Harold Macmillan
The Cuban Connection II
533
Lisa Howard, Havana, Che Guevara
Missions to the Third World
559
Sukarno, Indonesia, Ethel Kennedy
The Brothers II
584
Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Kennedy
Corridors of Grief
603
Warren Commission, John McCone, Robert Morgenthau
Stranger in a Strange Land
621
Sukarno, COINTELPRO, Evelyn Lincoln
The Vice Presidency
646
Sam Houston Johnson, Leo Janos, Abe Fortas
To the Senate
666
Fred Harris, carpetbagger, Morrissey
3o The Foreign Poliry Breach Latin Amerira
689
South Vietnam, Laos, Saigon
Vtetnam Legacy 7o1 32 The Breach Widens Vietnam
724
South Vietnam, Viet Cong, Guellal
The Breach Widens South Afrira New York
743
South Africa, Jack Newfield, James Farmer
Time of Troubles
759
coatimundi, Jacqueline Kennedy, Harold Wilson
Tribune of the Underclass
778
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Stewart Alsop, Peter Edelman
Images
801
Art Buchwald, George Plimpton, James Wechsler
The Dilemma
822
Dick Goodwin, Ted Sorensen, Eugene McCarthy
The Decision
842
Ted Kennedy, Fred Dutton, Adam Walinsky
The Journey Begins
858
Jimmy Breslin, Landon Lecture, Fauntroy
4o The Long Day Wanes
876
George Bernard Shaw, Richard Harwood, Jules Witcover
To Sail Beyond the Western Stars Until I Die
903
Jeremy Larner, George McGovern, Rafer Johnson
Notes
919
RFK Papers, Band of Brothers, JFK Oral History
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Johnson's people refused money absolutely and Symington's were to come up with only a tittle" (Humphrey, Education of a Publse Man (Garden City, NY, ...

Yalta - Page 83
discovery that Communists had been running United States foreign policy, it attributed the errors of Yalta to bad judgment, not to sinister intent. ...

Miami - Page 483
For his part Giancana, plotting away in Miami and jealously apprehensive that his girl, the singer Phyllis McGuire, might have her own plots in Las ...
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Moscow - Page 704
The discussion of intervention arose when Kennedy said that the threat of intervention might be necessary to get Moscow to agree to neutralization. ...

Dallas - Page 632

Guantanamo - Page 515
the withdrawal of US strategic missiles from Turkey and Italy and possibly agreement to limit our use of Guantanamo to a specified limited time. ...

Birmingham - Page 339
They talked about Birmingham. Kennedy observed that the very people who objected to Negroes working in downtown stores had Negroes serving their ...

Baku - Page 123
The Intourist agent in Baku told them no interpreters were available. Douglas said that the Soviet embassy in Washington had promised them one. ...

Berlin - Page 427
The result was to define the issue of Berlin in the bleakest terms. In Acheson's view the way to answer Khrushchev was to make the most conspicuous ...

Atlantic City - Page 663

Los Angeles - Page 204
Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, who were thought to be for Johnson but had unexpectedly declared for Stevenson after they arrived in Los Angeles. ...

Las Vegas - Page 483
might have her own plots in Las Vegas, asked the CIA to arrange an illegal wiretap in the room of his putative rival, the comedian Dan Rowan. ...

Oxford, Mississippi - Page 338
I don't want to have another Oxford, Mississippi." This gave Wallace his opening; "You folks are the ones that will control that matter, ...

Chicago - Page 851
Daley was an unlikely progenitor, but he disliked the war and had mentioned the idea to Kennedy in Chicago on the day in February Kennedy had blasted ...

Tuscaloosa - Page 337
The Attorney General had already begun preparations to prevent Tuscaloosa from becoming another Oxford. The university's president and board of ...

Boston - Page 135
I told him I didn't think it would go over in Boston but Schlesinger and Galbraith were of a different opinion although a compromise was ultimately ...

Hobe Sound, Florida - Page 613

New York - Page 388
At an early point the Dominican consul general in New York reported to El Supremo that Cassini "entertains the idea of arranging a meeting for you ...

Memphis - Page 323
But in Memphis the troops had gone off alert after hearing the speech. When the summons arrived, the first group, according to the Army theory of riot ...

Binghamton - Page 860
But it was still pretty close for a tired man bumping along in a bus at three in the morning after a political dinner in Binghamton.

San Francisco - Page 725
must decide whether to help these countries to the best of our ability or throw in the towel in the area and pull back our defenses to San Francisco. ...

Oxford - Page 323
The President had no idea things were falling apart in Oxford. Now the reports from the front grew suddenly alarming. The Attorney General asked ...

Detroit - Page 140
to the organizing energy of Jimmy Hoffa, the Auto Workers owed theirs to the intellectual drive of another Detroit trade unionist, Walter Reuther. ...

Vienna - Page 80
In Vienna as in Frankfurt he heard much complaint from the American military about the wartime and postwar agreements with the Soviet Union. ...

London - Page 35
Knowing Kennedy's influence among businessmen and Catholics and the weight his London experience would give his criticisms of the administration's ...

Guatemala - Page 444
These men had to be gotten out of Guatemala and Nicaragua; and if we brought them hack to the United States and turned them loose, ...

Delano, California - Page 790
They were fresh from Delano, California, where the National Farm Workers Association was conducting a strike of migratory grape workers and urging a ...

Buffalo - Page 691
7 I was in Buffalo at the end of a lecture tour on April 3o when Bill Moyers tracked me down and asked me to come at once to Washington. ...

Nashville - Page 147
Around eleven o'clock at night some weeks later, Kennedy called Seigenthaler in Nashville and said he was sending down two investigators. ...

Cracow - Page 656
I think I'll run for mayor of Cracow." An hour late in getting back for an embassy dinner, Kennedy climbed on the cartop and spoke to still another ...

Paris - Page 719
Gavin, who had served two years as ambassador to Paris, remembered a State Department officer calling de Gaulle "a bastard who is out to get us. ...

Libertyville - Page 135
He joined us one Sunday at Stevenson's house in Libertyville for an exasperating session on campaign planning in general and on Stevenson's ...

Charlottesville - Page 87
He called on her at Manhattanville College; she visited him at Charlottesville; and by 1949 they were enthusiastically in love.74 Ethel, ...

Cambridge - Page 380
After Archie has been down here a little while, he will seem more Washington than Cambridge. I think we'll have appointments enough for everybody. ...

Warsaw - Page 656
38 When Khrushchev visited Warsaw three weeks later, Cabot, noting the "pitiful" turnout on the streets in spite.

Dublin - Page 53
When Honey Fitz had taken his daughter Rose to Dublin long ago, he had shown her the spot in.

Sheridan, Arkansas - Page 171
surprising fondness had developed between the dour Baptist from the public schools of Sheridan, Arkansas, and the Irish Catholic from the Ivy League. ...

Lansdale - Page 534
The program Robert Kennedy and Lansdale had intended was different from the program CIA carried out. But the political base for their anti-Castro ...

Frankfurt - Page 80
In Vienna as in Frankfurt he heard much complaint from the American military about the wartime and postwar agreements with the Soviet Union. ...

San Diego - Page 912
Robert flew back to Los Angeles, spoke in Long Beach, went on to San Diego. By the end of the long day he was worn to the bone and near digestive ...

Beaumont, Texas - Page 843
If there is stealing in Beaumont, Texas, it is not bringing about the death of American boys." The claim that we had to fight in Vietnam to protect ...

Omaha - Page 888
On the day before the vote, a student at Creighton University in Omaha asked whether military service was not one way of getting young people out of ...

New Orleans - Page 289
12 Almost at once the Department of Justice confronted a crisis in New Orleans, where Judge Skelly Wright had ordered school integration and the ...

Panama - Page 653
Kennedy responded that Johnson was "not doing anything for the Alliance for Progress and he's not paying proper attention to Panama or Brazil. ...

Clarksdale, Mississippi - Page 303
A black walking down the street in Clarksdale, Mississippi, wearing a T-shirt with CORE on the front and FREEDOM NOW on the back was arrested for ...

Little Rock - Page 287
of federal troops to Little Rock to uphold the Constitution; the same year, the enactment of the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. ...

Denver - Page 238
Byron White brought from Denver as his deputy Joseph Dolan, who had worked for John Kennedy on Senate committees and had served in the Colorado ...

Philadelphia - Page 803
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Frunze - Page 125
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Algiers - Page 731

Santo Domingo - Page 690
in Santo Domingo about decapitations in the streets and provided dubious lists of the Dominican Communists who were supposedly taking everything over. ...

Saranac Lake, New York - Page 202
Joseph Rauh and James Loeb, who had founded Americans for Democratic Action and was now a newspaper publisher in Saranac Lake, New York, argued that ...

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Jackson, Mississippi - Page 300
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Oceanside - Page 213
forceful professional Jesse Unruh, and the liberals, led by Thomas Braden, then a newspaper publisher in Oceanside, was more than usually embittered. ...

Lagos - Page 437
Robert Kennedy sent his brother a glowing account by Ambassador Philip Kaiser of Bowles's performance at a conference of American diplomats in Lagos. ...

Syracuse - Page 618

Brookline - Page 94
18 Polly Fitzgerald, a cousin, and Helen Keyes, daughter of the Kennedy dentist in Brookline days, organized the famous teas for the candidate's ...

Atlanta - Page 878
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Selma, Alabama - Page 779
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Newport, Rhode Island - Page 30
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Chattanooga - Page 637
Jimmy Hoffa went on trial in Chattanooga in January 1964 on the charge of conspiring to fix the jury in the Test Fleet case. ...

Phoenix, Arizona - Page 670
The only other area that can boast such a man is Phoenix, Arizona." He begged the attention of Johnson City and its shoe industry for two reasons; ...

Jerusalem - Page 75
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Lincoln, Nebraska - Page 885
43 On the next day Kennedy addressed the UAW convention in Atlantic City, dined with his children at Hickory Hill and slept in Lincoln, Nebraska. ...

Milwaukee - Page 869
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Rome - Page 440
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Long Beach - Page 912
Robert flew back to Los Angeles, spoke in Long Beach, went on to San Diego. By the end of the long day he was worn to the bone and near digestive ...

Palm Springs - Page 495
Sinatra, expecting to entertain Kennedy in his Palm Springs house, had put in a helicopter pad and made other prepa-.

Crete, Nebraska - Page 888
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Cuernavaca - Page 495
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Madrid - Page 102
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Chesapeake - Page 586
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Concord, New Hampshire - Page 30
Paul's in Concord, New Hampshire. But St. Paul's turned out not to be all that secular; and its unremitting Episcopalianism was too much for Rose. ...

Newport - Page 41
The school, only a few miles from the naval base at Newport, responded quickly to the tremors of war. The headmaster decreed a blackout. ...

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Miami Beach - Page 249
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Butte, Montana - Page 248
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Sheboygan, Wisconsin - Page 171
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Louisville - Page 117
learn what communism was all about,74 More and more, however, as Kennedy had forecast in Louisville, the committee was returning to its old functions. ...

Lima - Page 694
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Greenwich, Connecticut - Page 87
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Omsk - Page 126
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Peking - Page 770
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Tokyo - Page 634
across the Pacific, with Robert and Ethel answering letters of condolence, was melancholy.84 The first talks with Sukarno were to take place in Tokyo. ...

Johannesburg - Page 747
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wen and horace silver

 

wen and the multitalented casey!

 

PALOMAR, LOS ANGELES AND WESTWOOD, THE COMFORT OF HOME!

 

WHEN VISITING SOCAL, STAY AT THE PALOMAR IN WESTWOOD, ONLY 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM ME!

SANTA MONICA SAXOPHONIST FLUTIST WEN MEW, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WENMEW1

PROFILE AT WWW.SMDP.COM APRIL 21, 2008


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samo bebopper 5-3-08

 

Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:

I appreciate very much your profile of me on April 21, 2008. The response has been very good. That morning a visitor from New York City read your newspaper during breakfast and showed his appreciation and complimented me that very morning.

Since i linked your profile on my daily emails on JAZZ AND POLITICS which are sent daily to friends throughout the world, the response from the recipients has been quite favorable since many people didn't know I was a lawyer, journalist playing jazz saxophone on the 3rd St. Promenade. They just knew me as a pretty good saxophone player.

I know you didn't have much space for my profile that day because there was no photo of me as reporter Canzi took quite a few photos of me playing SUNDAY MORNING SANTA MONICA which is one of the top tunes on the charts at www.jamwave.com click charts then JAZZ. So I knew there was a reason why there was no mention of the young people I play for daily which gives me more satisfaction than anything else.

I know I have introduced many young people to music by playing on the street and being accessible to them. I played for young Scott Zone from Calabasas when he was a year and half old when i first arrived in Santa Monica in late 1999, and last Christmas he played with me during his school holidays with a full set a drums on the promenade. You can see his photos at www.myspace.com/wenmew1

Of course not all the young people come back to perform with me 9 years later; however many visit with me every week, and i try and help them learn to sing and to pick out their singing notes on the piano. This is a way I like to start young people on the road to musical pleasure.

Also during my 9 years on the promenade, I've been able to meet some rather famous people I might not have otherwise met if I we're not playing on the promenade 5 hours a day nearly 7 days a week. For example the GREAT COMPOSER, ARRANGER JOHNNY MANDEL FROM MAILBU complimented me as well as HELEN REDDY, DONALD SUTHERLAND, STIX HOOPER OF THE JAZZ CRUSADERS, AND I MET ONE OF THE FINEST PERCUSSIONISTS OF OUR TIME STEVE GADD WHO'S BEEN ON OVER 100 ALBUMS, CARLY SIMON, CHICK COREA, ET. AL.

Acquaintances have not been limited to musicians, I've met baseball greats OZZIE SMITH, JOSE CANSECO, RON DARLING, said hello to BIG GAME JAMES WORTHY, but i missed KOBE BRYANT when he came down and bought his wife a 4 million dollar ring and had lunch at YANKEE DOODLES.

Also when friends found out I was a LAWYER, they tried to get me to work for DONALD STERLING, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers who was interested in me, but I wanted to stick with my music.

So you can tell from my profile and what I've expressed in this letter that I've been proud to have been an unofficial ambassador for the City Of Santa Monica, I've been happy to honor the City with five original compositions, SUNDAY MORNING SANTA MONICA, SANTA MONICA MOON, THE GRANDEUR OF SANTA MONICA, PROMENADE BOP AND PROMENADE BOSSA. www.jamwave.com click charts then JAZZ and www.myspace.com/wenmewsaxophonistflutist.

Also being on the promenade enabled me to be selected for OWEN WILSON'S "DRILLBIT TAYLOR" and a rock video for British star ROBBIE WILLIAMS. Prior to this I had only been in one movie, THE JOY LUCK CLUB.

As mentioned in the profile, I expect to be on the promenade until I can no longer play
saxophone. Since I'm quite young that will mean many more years absent any terrorist attacks or earthquakes et.al.

Again I'm very grateful that you gave me some space in your fine publication.

Sincerely,

Wen Mew, Santa Monica
wenmew@verizon.net

BEBOPPER ELLIOT JACK,. GRANDSON OF THE THE GREAT COMPOSER, ARRANGER, PRODUCER, BAND LEADER JACK ELLIOT!

 

this young man loves music. he shows signs of the gifts of his grandfather, COMPOSER,ARRANGER, ORCHESTRA LEADER, FOUNDER OF MANCINI INSTITUTE ORCHESTRA JACK ELLIOTT. see www.wenjaz.blogspot.com

a friend has loaned me the FLETCHER HENDERSON STORY, A STUDY IN FRUSTRATION, A THESAURUS OF CLASSIC JAZZ, FEATURING MANY, AMONG THEM, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BUSTER BAILEY, CHU BERRY, WHOSE SOUND BIRD LOVED), BENNY CARTER, ROY ELDRIDGE, COLEMAN HAWKINS, BENNY MORTON, RUSSELL PROCOPE, DON REDMAN, REX STEWART, BEN WEBSTER, FATS WALLER, DICKY WELLS, COOTIE WILLIAMS ET AL.

when i have time, i'll begin reviewing these 64 tracks.

THE FLETCHER HENDERSON ORCHESTRA, ONE OF THE FINEST SWING BANDS FROM 1923 TO 1938, A BREEDING GROUND FOR MANY GREAT MUSICIANS EVOLVED THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND SERIOUS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. FLETCHER LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR DUKE, BENNY CARTER AND MANY OTHERS. HIS ALUMNI BEGAN INFILTRATING THE WHITE BANDS MUCH LATER.

more later.

www.wenjaz.blogspot.com

six month old samo bopper!

 

levy a new bebopper from the palisades!

 

WEN'S PROFILE NOW AT www.smdp.com you need adobe reader!

wen with students from CABRILLO SCHOOL, MALIBU. and many his other young friends.

SANTA MONICA DAILEY NEWS www.smdp.com profiles WEN MEW, SAXOPHONIST, FLUTIST

 

the writer of the profile the lovely CHIARA CANZI (like roberta gambarini) is from Italy, and she wasn't familiar with the DALEY machine which has controlled chicago and ill. politics for some 50 years; so there was a typo "dailey". she got in my endorsement of BARACK THE BOPPER OBAMA. also it was my father who had PARKINSON'S who i hung out with before he passed. we drove like to areas where he picked peaches for 25 cents a day and up the sacramento river where he we used to fish for striped bass.

my father bought me my first saxophone, a brand new MARTIN when i began playing in the 6th grade. i had the best horn in LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL, ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, SO THE PRESSURE WAS ON FOR ME TO GET FAIRLY GOOD. for middle and high school, i was pretty good. we won the SEARCH FOR STARS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, and we played a woody herman tune, and i played HARLEM NOCTURNE for an encore. i remember the union pit musicians complimenting us high school students; so that was quite a thrill.

i and members of my combo in high school would take the bus from alameda to the berkeley community theatre to see benny goodman and later stan kenton at u.c. berkeley. this was quite thrilling for us. but waiting for the bus to return to alameda on the cold streets of berkeley was another thing. we were too young to drive, but we enjoyed going to the ooncerts.

later in college, we were able to see BASIE AND ELLINGTON AT THE SWEETS BALL ROOM IN OAKLAND, AND PARENTS WOULD BRING US TO BLACKHAWK IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE WE SAW CURTIS COUNCE AND HIS ALL STARS.

i mention all of this because when you expose young people to great musicians, it just might light a spark in their lives.

that's why i love playing on the promenade. actually i began playing on the street some 10 years before in the bay area.

the pan flutists from south america recruited me to play jazz over their flute sounds. so i was hooked. but i developed a specialty, playing for kids.

what i realized was that kids will respond to music more than their parents. they would come up to me. you will see on my myspace blog www.myspace.com/wenmew1 kids as young as 4 months old have grabbed my horn. and i've ended playing at kid's birthday parties and picnics.

those who are already studying music in school ask me questions, and some get on my emailing list for lessons. you can't just go up to a professional musician at a club or concert, but on the street you can.

i've tried to help people from all over the world learn about jazz through emails and my music on line.

just yesterday some GERMAN RECORD PRODUCERS showed interest in me, and i told them about ROBERTA GAMBARINI who has no recording contract, and naturally they were very interested. so who knows maybe we'll both be produced by the Germans before any Americans get interested in us.

I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE'S NO BIG MONEY BEHIND ROBERTA. SHE WINS ALL THE POLLS. "YOU ARE THERE" JUST GOT A 4 STAR RATING IN DOWNBEAT. SHE SAVED HANK JONES LIFE TWICE. THERE ARE NO ADS FOR HER CDS. JUST THIS MORNING I AWOKE TO HER "SOMTHING TO LIVE FOR" on direct sattellite, real jazz media radio. they play roberta a lot; so someone is asking for her. also i know d.j.'s all over the world are playing her.

people are selling her tracks online, and i bet she doesn't get a dime from all these pirate online sales operations. many jazz musicians are getting screwed this way.

right now i don't sell my tracks online. someday i will have to.

FORGOT TO SHAVE!

 

john the bebopper from CULVER CITY

 

don shelton

 

clare fischer

 

BRENT FISCHER

 

maria and bro, 2 hot beboppers 4/5/08 santa monica!

 

maria and bro, 2 new beboppers in santa monica 4/5/08

 

HOW COME NO HASTINGS GRADS INVOLVED IN BIG TIME SCANDALS?

well for one thing, we don't seem to get big time jobs. very few of us go to washington.

i went because i wanted to find out what it was like. unfortunately i worked for the nixon administration. i opposed the war; so chances for my advancement were pretty nil; so i switched to journalism to try and end the war.

we don't get any supreme court or cabinet appointments; so how can we get into trouble like these harvard and yale guys?

are we less intelligent? so we don't get these jobs?

i don't think so.

JOE COTCHETT IS KNOWN AS ONE OF THE TOP LAWYERS IN THIS COUNTRY AND A POWER BROKER IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICS. HE'S AN HONEST GUY. HE WOULDN'T BE A SPITZER OR A SCOOTER LIBBY. IN FACT HE MIGHT BE ASSISTING IN THE VALERIE PFLAME CASE.

i was really proud when my friend ED MEZVINSKY HASTINGS 65 J.D. WAS ON THE WATERGATE COMMITTEE AND VOTED TO IMPEACH NIXON.

but unfortunately he's been in jail for the last 7 years for getting sucked in by the nigerian email schemes and having to defraud friends and investors out of millions. he didn't miss a thing being in jail because THE BUSH ERA HAS SUCKED!!! he'll be out this november just in time in case his son marries chelsea clinton.

it's probably better that we don't work in washington. much to much temptation as success is based on INFLUENCE PEDDLING, not especially on how smart and honest you are.

WEN AT ARLINGTON WEST!

 

wen and horace silver a few years back.

 

CHINESE NEW YEAR'S IS NEXT MONTH FEB. 7TH, YEAR 4706. THE YEAR OF THE RAT.

THOSE BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT LIKE MOZART, SHAKESPEARE, BEN AFFLECK, GWYNETH PALTROW AND SOME OF YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HIGHLY TALENTED, CREATIVE, MAYBE GENIUSES WITH CHARISMA AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. (NOT ME)

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A MONTH TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU WERE BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE RAT, AND WE'LL LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW GREAT YOU ARE.

MY ANCESTORS CAME HERE LOOKING FOR GOLD. THEY DIDN'T FIND ONE
SLIVER OF GOLD AND GOT HARRASSED LIKE HELL FOR COMING HERE.

HOWEVER I THINK I AM THE FIRST IN THE FAMILY TO DISCOVER GOLD....

JAZZ........ AM I RIGHT????

THE SERIES THE BRAIN ON PUBLIC TELEVISION

i hope you're watching this program on PBS. i find it terribly encouraging as those of you who know me know that i'm in my 3rd career more or less, and the last 4 years of my life have been the most enjoyable when i focused completely and entirely on jazz.

i've been playing 2 to 5 hours a day for the last 4 years. and i believe it's working, though i may not be ready for Tamir and Roberta yet.

this tv series on the brain tells you that your brain is always changing, you can learn things until you die, and it must include jazz playing because that's what i'm doing.

i loved music in high school and had my own group, playing for dances and probably made more money then than i do now playing music.

HOWEVER I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEORY AND DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO IMPROVISE, AND TEACHERS IN MY DAY WERE NOT JAZZ ORIENTED; SO ALL I DID WAS TRY AND IMPROVISE ON THE WASHINGTON POST MARCH AND GET KICKED OUT OF THE BAND.

i was in no way like a GERALD CLAYTON OR A JOSHUA REDMAN coming out of high school. SO I QUIT MUSIC. I DIDN'T PLAY A NOTE FOR 13 YEARS while i attended Berkeley, law school and the Columbia Grad School of Journalism.

all this time i kept listening and knew i loved music. i didn't go to a black church; so i knew nothing about sophisticated rhythm.

finally when i got a job with NBC NEWS in chicago, i began playing again. i had money, bought a new selmer alto, soprano, a maramatsu flute and great musicians like ELDEE YOUNG AND VON FREEMAN would invite me to play. but actually i couldn't play worth a shit.

but i kept trying. and when i returned to the bay area as my father had PARKINSON'S DISEASE, I continued to try and play jazz, and now that i've been really concentrating on music in santa monica, i believe that it's coming around.

and the series on the brain encourages me to go on even though i may never reach BIRD'S LEVEL, i will get better til i die.

I MAY HAVE FOUND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. DRINKING GREEN TEA HAS REDUCED MY CALORIC INTAKE.

THIS PARTICULAR GREEN TEA SOLD ON THE 3RD ST. PROMENADE, SANTA MONICA WHERE I PLAY DAILY HAS MADE ME LESS HUNGRY, AND AS A RESULT I EAT MUCH LESS.

DAVE WALESCHECK OWNS THE GREEN TEA COMPANY, AND I BUY FROM HIM. www.greenteahp-california.com

NOW I'VE TRIED GREEN TEA BEFORE, BUT THIS PARTICULAR BRAND SEEMS TO BE WORKING. I'M LOSING A POUND A DAY, AND MY GOAL OF COURSE IS TO REGAIN MY APPEARANCE WHEN I BEGAN WORKING FOR NBC NEWS.

I'LL LET YOU KNOW OF MY PROGRESS, OR YOU CAN COME VISIT ME. IT'S ABOUT 67 DEGREES DURING THE DAY. YOU can view us at www.santamonicatoday.com

it's a good thing OWEN WILSON didn't suceed in his suicide attempt as he should get another gig because of this movie.

THE ONLY REASON WHY I'M GOING TO SEE THIS MOVIE IS TO SEE WHETHER I MADE IT OFF THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR. I WAS PLAYING "GIANT STEPS" WHEN OWEN, "DRILLBIT TAYLOR" WALKED BY ME.

MAYBE TOM SCOTT OR ERNIE WATTS DID MY SOUND???

ANYWAY IF YOU HAVE SCHOOL AGE KIDS, YOU'LL PROBABLY GET A FEW LAUGHS.

i had the honor of performing with CALMONT ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TODAY. THEIR CHOIR IS DIRECTED BY ANNIE HALL, ARSENIO'S MOTHER. SHE'S AN ETTA JAMES

TYPE STYLIST, AND WE DID A FEW NUMBERS AND MAY PERFORM TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE. SHE KNEW MICHAEL WOLFF, ARSENIO'S FORMER MUSICAL DIRECTOR WITH WHOM I PLAYED AT THE COLLEGE OF ALAMEDA.

THE KIDS WERE QUITE GOOD, AND THEIR RHYTHM WAS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR THEIR AGE. I WASN'T THAT GOOD WHEN I WAS THEIR AGE, BELOW SIXTH GRADE.

CALMONT IS NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND YOU DON'T OFTEN HAVE CHOIR TEACHERS LIKE HALL IN PUBLIC SHCOOLS.

SO YOU CAN SEE IF YOU CAN GET YOUR KID IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL LIKE THIS, THEY WILL HAVE A HEAD START OVER PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR CURRICULUM, YOU WILL SEE THAT THEY WILL BE HEADED TOWARD ADVANCE PLACEMENT TYPE CLASSES BY THE TIME THEY REACH HIGH SCHOOL. UNFORTUNATELY THIS NOT EDUCATION FOR THE MASSES, LIKE THOSE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHERE KIDS CAN'T READ OR DO MATH.

BOB UDKOFF, DUKE'S ROAD MGR.

 

THE NEXT "BIRD"

 

originally taken at CANNERY ROW, PEBBLE BEACH, MONTEREY, CA.

 

GUESS I'LL HANG MY TEARS OUT TO DRY

VERSE: The torch i carry is handsome
it's worth its heartache in ransom
now when the twilight steals
i know how the lady in the harbor feels

CHORUS:

when i want rain, i get sunny weather
i'm just as blue, blue as the sky
since love has gone, i can't get myself together

guess i'll hang my tears out to dry

my friend ask me out, but i tell them i'm busy
i've got to get a new alibi
i hang around at home, and ask myself: where is she?
guess i'll hang my tears out to dry

dry little tear drops, my little tear drops
moving on a stream of dreams
my little memories, those precious memories
remind me of our crazy schemes

then somebody says just forget about her
but i gave that treatment a try
strangely enough, i got along without her
then one day she passed me right by - oh well
i guess i'll hang my tears out to dry

by sammy cahn

paradise cove lounge

 

mom at work volunteering mastick senor cneter

 

wen and the flores trio

 

SANTA MONICA MOON listen at www.jamwave.com/wenjaz

 

BEBOPPERS FROM O.C. 8 -16-07

 

CASEY, WEN'S FAVORITE DANCER

 

the new charlie parker

 

eddie greenberg's cake

 

wen playing for kids on the promenade

 

mom's recent emergency in hospital with aunt sarah jan

 

WHAT WAS LEFT OF SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN AFTER THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE.

MY GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS HAD EMIGRATED TO SAN FRANCISCO FOLLOWING THE DECLINE IN GOLD MINING ACTIVITY IN GRASS VALLEY AND PLACERVILLE IN THE LATE 1800s.

they had come to America looking for the GOLD MOUNTAIN. much to their dismay, the white man was not going to allow any chinaman to own gold claims.

consequently once in the mining country they had to figure out how to survive, sewing jeans for the miners (too bad they didn't work for LEVI STRAUSS, or i would have owned the Oakland A's.) and they grew veggies and sold them to the miners.

but this type of life didn't last too long as one of the largest gold mines in grass valley and placerville was nearly depleted.

so when when my grandfather and grandmother were kindergarten age, their families moved to san francisco chinatown. (you want to stick to your own kind, realistically a chinaman could not move to too many places and not get harrassed. even when my grandfather was a teenager and ventured out of chinatown, white kids would beat him up and pull on his pigtails. i'm not going to say who did this because i have many friends who are italians and irishmen.)

my grandfather's parents died when he was a pre teen, and how he survived i'll never know. but an older sister took care of him, and he had other brothers and sisters about whom i know little.

i knew my grandfather as a jovial care free person who was my day care provider when i was young (see photo). he loved to sing and taught me my very first melodies (chinese nursery rhymes, and i can't even speak chinese today, but relatives say i was pretty good at spitting the stuff out. this experience along with hearing my mother sing TEA FOR TWO, APRIL SHOWERS,I'M LOOKING OVER A FOURLEAF CLOVER, THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE, TENDERLY AND MANY MORE NO DOUBT IMPLANTED ME WITH A SENSE FOR MELODY, DEFINITELY NOT RAP.

i never ever saw my grandfather do any work. i know he was not stupid, but i didn't know how smart he was because we never talked about life or anything like that. but this tape i'm listening too and transcribing shows he had an encyclopedic knowledge of san francisco chinatown. he knew where everyone lived; all the streets, where the herbalists were located, the doctors and pharmacists of those days, where all the restaurants, churches, temples, associations were located, where the tenement houses were, where the single men lived. this is all detailed in the cassette which i'm putting on CD. also he was very good at reading and writing chinese and picked up english pretty well; (this recall was related to my uncle some 60 years later.) my grandmother never spoke to us in english, but she watched television which was in english and could tell you everything about the storyline in movies, soap operas or dramas.

AS YOUNG PARENTS, HERE ARE THEIR RECOLLECTIONS OF THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AS TOLD TO MY UNCLE DR. HOWARD JAN WHO HAS PASSED (THE FIRST CHINESE ORTHODONTIST TO GRADUATE FROM U.C.'S DENTAL SCHOOL) AND TRANSLATED BY MY UNCLE WILLIAM JAN WHO ALSO HAS PASSED AND WHO WAS MY DAD'S PARTNER IN A SMALL GROCERY STORE IN ALAMEDA.

"THE CITY SHOOK LIKE HELL; BUILDINGS CAME TUMBLING DOWN; BRICKS WERE FALLING EVERYWHERE. WE TRIED TO STUFF EVERYTHING WE COULD IN PILLOW CASES. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO AVOID ALL THE BRICKS AND STUFF FLYING EVERYWHERE. WE LOST A LOT OF VALUABLES BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GO BACK TO THE BUILDING WHERE WE LIVED BECAUSE IT WAS DESTROYED."

"IT WAS COLD; WE WERE SHIVERING AND FOUND REFUGE IN A PARK; THERE WAS NOWHERE TO GO; NO FOOD; WE WERE HUNGRY, TOTALLY BEWILDERED; THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT THE PARK; WE WERE TIRED. GRANDMA WAS PREGNANT. BULDINGS FELL ONE BY ONE, FIRES EVERYWHERE, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO; WEALTHY PEOPLE HAD HORSES AND BUGGIES, VEHICLES, AND THEY GOT OUT. THE REST OF US JUST SHIVERED IN THE PARK.

GRANDPA KNEW A FRIEND WHO HAD A BUILDING ON VAN NESS. SO WE BEGAN WALKING TOWARD VAN NESS FROM CHINATOWN. ON THE WAY WE FOUND A FRIENDLY LAUNDRY MAN, HE ALLLOWED US TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN HIS LAUNDRY. STILL WE WERE HUNGRY, NO FOOD. WE LEFT BEHIND ALL OUR VALUABLES, MOSTLY JEWELRY. THERE WERE MANY BABY GIFTS FOR LILLIAN. (MY COUSIN JANICE'S (REDLANDS) MOTHER) WE LEFT THOSE BEHIND."

THE CITY HAD NOTHING. SOMEONE TOLD GRANDPA TO GO DOWN TO THE WATERFRONT TO SEE WHETHER THERE WERE ANY BOATS TO TAKE THEM AWAY AND PERHAPS TO THE EAST BAY, OAKLAND AND ALAMEDA.

GRANDPA WALKED FROM VAN NESS TO THE WATERFRONT AND BACK AND GOT GRANDMA. BUT GRANDMA WAS WEAK AND HUNGRY AND FAINTED ON THE WAY, AND SHE WAS PREGNANT AND HAD DIFFICULTY MAKING THE WALK FROM VAN NESS TO THE WATERFRONT. (ANYONE WHO KNOWS SAN FRANCISCO KNOWS IT'S NOT A STRAIGHT SHOT. THERE ARE MANY HILLS.)

THEY FOUND A BOAT RIDE TO OAKLAND, BUT THEY HEARD ABOUT ALAMEDA WHERE THERE WERE FARMS. THEY KNEW THEY COULD FARM A LITTLE AND SURVIVED. FROM MARCH TO MAY (1906) THEY STAYED IN ALAMEDA ON A FARM AND THEN THEY MOVED AND FOUND A PLACE ON 3RD ST. IN OAKLAND (NOT TOO FAR FROM WHAT IS NOW JACK LONDON SQUARE AND OAKLAND CHINATOWN); SEVERAL CHILDREN WERE BORN THERE. SOME OF MY AUNTS AND UNCLES NEVER SURVIVED CHILD BIRTH. THEN THEY MOVED TO HARRISON STREET WHERE SEVERAL MORE UNCLES, AUNTS AND MY MOTHER WAS BORN, AND THEN TO 228 7TH STREET WHERE MY YOUNGEST UNCLE, DR. DEWEY JAN WAS BORN AND WHERE WE HAD DINNER EVERY WEEK AND WHERE THE SEEDS OF JAZZ WERE PLACED IN MY HEAD. THIS WAS WHERE I FIRST HEARD MY UNCLES'S 78s of BENNY GOODMAN, ARTIE SHAW, THE DORSEY'S, WOODY HERMAN, HARRY JAMES ET AL. i didn't know what these guys were doing, but i liked it.

OF COURSE MY GRANDPARENTS HAVE SINCE PASSED, BUT I'M VERY GRATEFUL I KNEW THEM. THEY SET THE STANDARD FOR EXCELLENCE WHICH WAS PASSED ON TO MY MOTHER, UNCLES AND AUNTS AND HENCE TO ME AND MY BROTHERS AND COUSINS.

YOU KNOW THE MUSIC HAD TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE.

FOR GIGS, EMAIL WENMEW@VERIZON.NET

FOR GIGS, EMAIL WENMEW@VERIZON.NET

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A CELEBRATION OF LIFE TOM FAT 3

 

A CELEBRATION OF LIFE TOM FAT

 

A CELEBRATION OF LIFE TOM FAT

 

bebopper LUC, 5-26-07 sANTA MONICA

 

bebopper ELI 5-26-07 sANTA MONICA

 

A FIVE MINUTE VERSION OF "BOSSA FOR TOM FAT" recorded today along with SOLITUDE for dean joe moless.

both tunes are on the charts. www.jamwave.com click charts then JAZZ.

ONE OF THE LADIES WHO HELPS KEEP MY MUSIC ON THE CHARTS IS VOCALIST SHERRY SHAOLING FROM HONOLULU. www.myspace.com/sherryshaoling

to show you what a small world of 180 million blogs on myspace now owned by rupert murdoch is, SHERRY HAPPENS TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF WOODY CHOCK, FORMER USF LAW STUDENT AND NOW WATERCOLOR ARTIST. you can see his paintings by putting his name in the search engine. Woody hung out with Richard Ing who i think got a 98 in real property from Fraser. Woody quit law school, loves music and particpates in musical theatre. Woody is also the cousin of our friend MARION CHOCK FAY.

actually Sherry is the only person i've run into on myspace where i have a personal connection, except for the jazz musicians, many of whom i know personally. but i now seem to play for VIOLET, JENNIFER GARNER'S DAUGHTER EVERY WEEK. Jennifer's not afraid to leave her home in Brentwood or Santa Monica and mingle with the common folk.

In fact when she was making a movie in Ga., she liked her nanny so much that she hired the couple and moved them to socal to help her out. I met the nanny. She's trained in horticulture.

ANYWAY, HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE, AND I'LL SEE YOU IN SAN DIEGO MONDAY.

MY LIFELONG FRIEND THOMAS NORMAN FAT IS GONE.

the deadly SARCOMA, gone is his great smile, his warm and generous hospitality, his wit and humor, his caring for others, the secret to his success, making everyone feel special.

even though we didn't see each other much after U.C. BERKELEY, HASTINGS LAW SCHOOL, and the army, he and his family set the standard for all of us asians, to work hard, to achieve, to make some contribution before we go.

THAT TOM DID. I MERELY OFFER A RECORDING I MADE TODAY IN LIGHT OF TOM'S ROMANTIC SPIRIT AND LOVE FOR LIFE, "BOSSA FOR THOMAS NORMAN FAT". already it's at the top of the charts. www.jamwave.com click charts then JAZZ.

as with everything i record, it will change daily until i'm satisfied, them after a few months i'll probably revisit it.

VISITATION AND SHARING MERKLEY-MITCHELL MORTUARY, FRIDAY MAY 25TH 2 TO 7 PM. 3655 5TH AVE. SAN DIEGO.

FUNERAL MASS IMMACULATA USD MONDAY MAY 28TH 11 AM 5998 ALCALA PARK S.D.

AFTER THE FUNERAL, FAT CITY STEAKHOUSE (PIC ABOVE) 2137 PACIFIC HWY. S.D.

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS AND DONATIONS. UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW (IN MEMORY OF THOMAS FAT)

wen and one of the jazz students at UCLA

 

K.K. FROM VENICE PLAYS HAPPY B TO WEN.

 

IMMIGRATION REFORM THE HOT TOPIC THIS WEEK!!!!

except for NATIVE AMERICANS, WE ALL COME FROM SOMEWHERE!

YOU HAVE YOUR STORY. HERE'S MY STORY.

around 1850, the first chinese arrive in America, generally sailors, a few in new york, but mostly around california. some settled in the Monterey, Santa Barbara areas and began a settlement, thriving from the bountiful fruits of the sea, subsequently establishing the largest dried seafood business in the world from CANNERY ROW.

however most chinese fleeing poverty, unrest, political corruption, tong wars headed for the GOLD COUNTRY and after 1860, many were recruited to build the transcontinental railroad, just like today, get IMMIGRANTS TO DO STUFF, AMERICANS CAN'T OR WON'T DO, LIKE BLASTING THROUGH THE SIERRAS IN THE COLD OF WINTER AND LAYING TRACK ON THE BLISTERING SAND OF THE DESERT.

MY ANCESTORS ARRIVE AROUND 1890, ABOUT THE TIME THE FIRST LEGITIMATE JAZZ BAND LED BY BUDDY BOLDEN IN NEW ORLEANS WAS RECOGNIZED. 117 YEARS LATER I'M PLAYING JAZZ FOR RACQUEL AND HER BROTHER FROM GERMANY. (PIC ABOVE)

my ancestors headed directly for GRASS VALLEY north of Sacramento where one of the largest gold mines was being established.

however they weren't told about laws which didn't allow chinese to file claims or own land.

SO WHAT DO THEY DO? well, they knew how to grow veggies, and my grandmother's family were great seamstresses, i remember my grandmother always sewing. they sell veggies to the miners, and they sew pants for the miners. IF ONLY LEVI STRAUSS, THE CREATOR OF BLUE JEANS HAD HIRED THEM. i might have owned the OAKLAND A'S.

the mines had been mined dry by 1900; so my ancestors were forced to migrate to SAN FRANCISCO.

1906 EARTHQUAKE, AND my pregnant grandmother's running from van ness avenue to the dock to escape the flames. how they could afford a ride to the east bay is beyond me because the boat operators exploited the crisis situation with inflated fares.

WELL TIME TO START ALL OVER AGAIN; JUST LIKE THE KATRINA VICTIMS TODAY.

well they knew how to grow veggies and sew which they did in Alameda. Then they become pioneers in what is now Oakland Chinatown where my mom is born, where i was later born on this day a few years ago.

Then years later my dad buys a home on bay farm island, ALAMEDA,and i begin saxophone in the sixth grade and am still playing today.

one year old RACQUEL from Germany

 

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO MY MOM MAY JAN MEW.

 

ONE OF THE THINGS I LEARNED FROM MY MOM WAS TO WORK HARD. MY MOM AND DAD WORKED VERY HARD SO THAT WE ALL COULD FINISH COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL.

PLAYING MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE ME MUCH MONEY, BUT I WORK VERY HARD AT IT AS I'M GOING TO WORK RIGHT NOW.

MICHAEL ELIAS WRITER -DIRECTOR OF LUSH LIFE CONTRIBUTED TO MY CAUSE TODAY.

 

i didn't see this movie starring ERNIE ANDREWS, FOREST WHITAKER ET AL, and filmed at BIRDLAND, BLUE NOTE N.Y.and scored by LENNIE NIEHAUS. the music must be pretty good with the likes of JACK SHELDON and some of L.A.'S best.

someone tell me whether it's worth watching.

i would never have known Elias if he didn't introduce himself. just like i didn't know what JOHNNY MANDEL looked like when he helped me out. but I KNEW HELEN REDDY, DONALD SUTHERLAND, and i'll never forget their contributions.

if i don't write this stuff down, i'll forget, early alzheimers.

A FEW EXTRA LBS. OVER THE YEARS, BUT AS TYRA SAYS "WE LOVE OURSELVES". Iin my case, had a slip disc and gained 40 lbs in hospital eating cheese cake,

filet, ice cream and lobster. boy was i stupid, but when you're in pain, one tends to EAT AND EAT!

below 60 degrees in santa monica today, but i see some blue skies; so i will try and record some mewsic for you.

go to www.jamwave.com click charts then JAZZ.

SOUTH AMERICAN BEBOPPER

BE CAREFUL LADIES, LOTS OF GOOD FOOD DURING THE HOLIDAYS. TYRA GAINED 40 LBS BECAUSE OF STRESS. I GAINED 40 PLUS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH A SLIP DISC,

EATING FILET, CHEESE CAKE, LOBSTER AND ICE CREAM.

JUST A WARNING.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 

photo by famed photographer www.larrybrownstein.com

taken 12-15-06 famed 3rd st. promenade, Santa Monica, CA. 

MASON FROM MANHATTAN A REAL BOPPER

 

socal bebopper

 

wen has been able to get extra help to prevent KARL ROVE from stealing tuesday's election. Wen says George Lucas will help oversee election results

the crucial states like Ohio, Va, Pa, Tn, Mo, Co, etc.

we realize KARL ROVE is ruthless. as is his alleged gay protege REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JEW KEN MEHLMAN.

this will be a formidable task to keep the REPUBLICANS FROM STEALING THIS ELECTION.

hopefully good will overcome evil as willed by GEORGE LUCAS.

be careful, be vigilant. report wrongdoing. 

russian bopper

 

russian bebopper

 

westside bebopper

 

wen and the jedhi

 

BEBOPPER BRENT SOLOING.

 

BEBOP HARMONICA PLAYER BRETT FROM LONDON JAMMING WITH WEN.

 

bebopper phobe

 

BEBOPPER ANAIS

 

ROMY AND SISTER WESTSIDE BEBOPPERS

 

a few years back

  

DANTE THE JAZZ DOG SAXOPHONIST

  

young lady bebopper

  

TRANE'S BIRTHDAY IS A GOOD DAY FOR SELF ASSESSMENT.

In the days leading up to Trane's birthday, i've tried to record as many tunes as i could which are associated with Trane. Today i did MY FAVORITE THINGS AND TADD DAMERON'S SOULTRANE. Tunes recorded earlier include Naima, Lush Life, A Love Supreme, Dear Lord, On A Misty Night, Ruby My Dear, Stardust, and Central Park West.

Why do I do this? Coltrane's versions are obviously superior. Well for one thing, i love playing the music, and i'm documenting my progress.

TRANE's productive recording life was say 25 years, Bird's was 17 years. Now i have a good 20 to 30 years left. Can i possibly approach what these giants accomplished?

WHY NOT TRY? There is no doubt Bird and Trane both practiced harder and more than I have at this point in my life. Bird told Paul Desmond he practiced 14 hours a day for 3 or 4 years, and my guess is he did much of that under the tutelage of BUSTER SMITH IN THE OZARKS. Trane's practice sessions are legendary. Trane practiced during his breaks during five or six hour sets. When Miles gave Trane a soprano saxophone, it never left Trane's mouth. He practiced while waiting for the bus at bus stops.

Now i started playing 3 to 5 hours a day about 3 years ago. Prior that time i played, but i had day gigs and wasn't really as focused as i am now. I know i've improved in the last 3 years. I can't practice as hard as Bird and Trane. I just don't have the stamina, and my concentration begins to wane after 3 hours. So maybe i won't make it to their level; however i expect to play until the heart gives out.

It's nice that PHAROAH SANDERS, Trane's playing partner came on my MYSPACE BLOG TODAY, Trane's birthday. I know Pharoah practices a lot too. LOOK TRANE WORKED ON GIANT STEPS FOR A YEAR BEFORE HE RECORDED IT. ALL I CAN DO IS FILL UP THE SPACE WITH A BUNCH OF NOTES RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE THE MOMENT I CREATED "SUNDAY MORNING IN SANTA MONICA" wwwjamwave.com/birdmew Hope you will visit me soon. LIsten for Sax!!

  

NEW TUNE "SUNDAY MORNING IN SANTA MONICA" FOR BEBOPPER FRITZ FROM GREAT BRITAIN

  

SUNDAY MORNING IN SANTA MONICA, FRITZ BEBOPPER FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

  

HON. NANCY PELOSI

  

wen mew "the chinese bird of Santa Monica", L.A. Jazz Scene Feb. 2003

  

OPIUM POPPIES FLOURISHING UNDER THE TALIBAN, A HUGE REVENUE SOURCE FOR THE TERRORISTS WHO INTEND TO KILL US. IN OTHERWORDS THE MONEY USED TO TRAIN

 
TERRORISTS AND TO BUY WEAPONS IS COMING FROM OUR OWN POCKETS, AMERICANS WHO USE HEROIN. HOW STUPID CAN WE BE?

TALIBAN OPIUM GOES TO NIGERIA THEN TO CHICAGO STREET GANGS, AND IT'S DISTRIBUTED THOUGHOUT THE U.S., ESPECIALLY TO ALLUENT SUBURBS WHERE WHITE KIDS CAN AFFORD AND DO DRUGS. EVEN THE HOMELESS CAN OBTAIN CRACK COCAINE AS I'VE WITNESSED A GUY DOING DRUGS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I WAS PLAYING MUSIC.

SEE HOW STUPID AMERICANS ARE. WE'RE FINANCING OUR OWM KILLERS. 

CAN ANYTHING BE DONE ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS PROLIFERATIN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD? THE ANSWER SEEMS TO BE NO!!!

 

The conclusion i get from all the news reports the past few days, is that we're really helpless with respect to changing the hearts and minds of the thousands of terrorists proliferating throughout the world like cockroaches.

These young people are being indoctrinated as soon as they're old enough to chant passages of the Koran, and in most cases they don't even know what they're chanting about.

BUT ALL THIS EDUCATION RESULTS IN A HATRED OF THE U.S. AND IT'S PEOPLE.

SO WHAT DO WE DO? WE CAN TAKE SECURITY MEASURES WHICH WE'RE DOING. BUT WE WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP ALL THE HITS WHICH MAY NOT BE IMMEDIATE, BUT WILL MOST CERTAINLY OCCUR WITHIN THE LIVES OF YOUR CHILDREN.

WE CAN TAKE IT TO THEM WHICH IS WHAT BUSH AND CHENEY ARE DOING, BUT THEY TARGETED THE WRONG PEOPLE. THEY DIDN'T SET PRIORITIES, AND WE DON'T HAVE THE MANPOWER TO SYSTEMATICALLY GO AFTER ALL THE TERRORISTS WHICH ARE LOCATED ALL OVER THE WORLD.

IF WE'RE GOING TO TARGET THE BUDDING TERORISTS, PAKISTAN HAS TO BE A PRIORITY. (ALSO WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NUCLEAR NUTS, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN.)

PAKISTAN HAS A POPULATION OF 160 MILLION. A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE TERRORISTS OR ARE PEOPLE SYMPATHETIC TO THE TERRORISTS.

TO DEAL WITH SO MANY, WE SIMPLY HAVE TO NUKE THEM UNLESS THEIR FLEDGING GOVERMENT CAN COME THROUGH. BUT THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T POLICE THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THE GOVERNMENT'S TOO WEAK. IF WE NUKE THEM, MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL DIE.

SO IT COMES DOWN TO THIS, WE LET THEM PROLIFERATE, AND WE TAKE THE SMALL HITS WHICH WILL OCCUR IN THE FUTURE. SO WE LOSE A FEW THOUSAND PEOPLE HERE AND A FEW THOUSAND THERE. NO BIG THING. MAYBE THAT'S BETTER THAN US KILLING MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

WE'RE BROAD AND HIGH MINDED. WE DON'T MIND A FEW THOUSAND AMERICANS DYING FOR NO REASON, AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T HIT CLOSE TO HOME.

HOWEVER IT DOES HIT CLOSE TO HOME. IF WE DIDN'T KNOW PERSONALLY PEOPLE WHO PERISHED IN 9-11, WE CERTAINLY KNOW SOME TO THE BUSINESS AND TV PERSONALITIES WHO PERISHED. I USED TO WATCH AND TAKE ADVICE FROM THESE PEOPLE ALL THE.

I'M SIMPLY POSING THE DILEMNA WE'RE IN AS WE CONTINUE YEAR BY YEAR.

I FEEL I'M ON THE DOWNSLOPE OF MY LIFE, AND ALL I'M GOING TO LEAVE ARE MY MUSICAL TRACKS ONLINE. WHETHER THEY HAVE MUCH VALUE? I DON'T KNOW. MY MUSIC SEEMS TO BRING PLEASURE TO SOME.

AND I EXPECT TO GET BETTER WITH EACH YEAR TIL I DIE, AND WHEN THAT WILL BE YOU'LL NEVER KNOW. WELL, IF ONE HAS TERMINAL CANCER, YOU KIND OF KNOW. 

ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 THE BUSHEES ARE SAYING WE'RE SAFER NOW THAN WE WERE 5 YEARS AGO BECAUSE WE'VE HAVEN'T BEEN HIT SINCE. THAT'S A CROCK

 
WHAT KIND OF LOGIC IS THAT? YALE LOGIC? hate to spoil your Sunday morning, but like cockraches we'll never stamp out these cats. they're proliferating all over the world as i type this.

i naievely thought that JENNA JAMIESON AND THE WORLD'S PORN STARS COULD ELIMINATE WHAT MUST BE INCREDIBLE HORNINESS IN THESE TERRORISTS. BUT IT WOULD TAKE ALL THE PORN STARS AND PROSTITUTES OF THE WORLD PLUS OUR HOT MYSPACE GIRLS TO GET THESE GUYS OFF, INCLUDING GAYS. YOU KNOW THEY'RE ARE GAY TERRORISTS.

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BIN LADENS AND WANNA BE BIN LADENS ALL OVER THE WORLD. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT GET ALL THESE CATS TO ORGASM, EVEN IF THE GIRLS TOOK ON TWO OR THREE AT A TIME.

THE WANNA BEES WILL BEGIN WITH SMALL SUICIDE ATTACKS. ONCE THEY DO A FEW SUCESSFULLY, THEY'LL GET SOME BIG TIME TERRORIST MONEY.

THAT'S WHY ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. YOU DON'T HAVE TO INFILTRATE TO FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. THAT'S OUR BEST HOPE IN AVOIDING BIG TIME DISASTER.

HOWEVER IT ONLY TOOK 100 THOUSAND TO PULL OFF 9/11; AND ONE CAN SLIP 100 THOUSAND THRU EASILY IN SMALL INCREMENTS.

THESE TERRORISTS ARE NOT DUMB, THEY MAY NOT BE ON MYSPACE, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE 110 MILLION BLOGS, BUT THEY ARE USING THE INTERNET TO RECRUIT.

SO WE NEED PEOPLE TO POSE AS RECRUITEES AND INFILTRATE.

ANYWAY SORRY TO SPOIL YOUR SUNDAY MORNING. TIME FOR ME TO PLAY MUSIC WHERE I CAN FORGET ABOUT THIS SHIT FOR FIVE HOURS. 

WEN MEW, "THE CHINESE BIRD OF SANTA MONICA," L.A. Jazz Scene Feb.2003

  

wen mew playing at cannery row, carmel and monterey

  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FIRST RECORDING PARTNER ADAM LEVINE, HEAD OF THE LEVINE MUSIC ACADEMY, PASO ROBLES, CA. gtrlessons@aol.com

  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ADAM LEVINE, MY FIRST RECORDING PARTNER AND DIRECTOR OF THE LEVINE MUSIC ACADEMY IN PASO ROBLES, CA.

 
GTRLESSONS@AOL.COM 

8-27 bebopper

  

WEN MEW, FORMER NEWS EDITOR NBC NEWS

  

wen playing straight soprano in Tiburon, CA.

  

wen mew, " the chinese bird of santa monica", l.a. jazz scene feb. 2003

  

LITTLE BLONDE BEBOPPER

  

  

WEN PLAYING FOR YOUNG FLUTE STUDENT

  

PAINTING BY JAMES WILSON

  

BROTHER AND SISTER BEBOPPERS FROM GREAT BRITAIN

  

jack the bebopper

  

jake the bebopper

  

SATURDAY BEBOPPER 8-12

  

valencia bebopper

  

JAZZ DOG AND OWNER CHARACTER ACTOR